News of the Future This Week, March 28, 2018

“A space station is a rangy monstrosity, a giant erector set built by a madman.”–Mary Roach

Oh, how jaded we’ve become. Remember Skylab? When it became the first orbiting space station to crash back to earth, away back in 1979, it provoked a wide range of bizarre cultural outcroppings, from Skylab crash parties to insurance against it landing on your head. This time? Not so much. If the cable news channels can’t politicize it, they won’t give it much mention.

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